Originally Posted by billy2fish

Where oh where are the good old moderate republicans, such as Christian Herter,former Gov.sec. of state,under sec. of state and congressman.George Romney gov. of Michigan. Charles Persy former US Senator from Illinois. Nelson Rockefeller 4 time Gov.NY and former Vice President. John Volpe former Gov.Ma. and Ambassador to Italy. And although most dem. and independents wont admit it Richard Nixon he had his faults but he opened the door to China and we no longer had to look at the Russians and China together as a threat.Then the Christen right got pandered to,and who do we end up with,yep george w bush he bought the Texas rangers then took tax payer money to buy land for a stadium,bought an oil company couldn't find any oil in Texas then sold all his stock in the company shortly after that the company went bankrupt and lets not forget the Hollywood slasher B movie he produced and you right wingers never had a problem with him oh excuse me never had a problem until he bankrupted the whole country.You never had a problem with the biggest thief ever in politics cheney.The Christen right is not your power base the blue collar worker is and as Paul Harvey always said and now the rest of the story.